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Does Goddess Pele have any brothers or sisters?
Does Goddess Pele have any Talents?
What forms can Pele change into?
What is Goddess Pele famous for?
What are Goddess Pele's characteristics?
Does Goddess Pele Have any Legends?
Goddess Pele is the Hawaiian Goddess of fire and volcanoes. She is
capable of both these objects. Pele is one of the few gods who are
remembered from the past.
Goddess Pele settled in Hawaii after being chased away from her original home
by her devastated older sister, Na-maka-o-kaha'i, because Pele had seduced her
husband.
Yes. Pele has seven brothers and seven sisters. Some of them are
Na-maka-o-kaha'i, Ka-moho-ali'i, Ka-poho-i-kahi-ola, Keua-a-kepo,
Ke-ahi-kama-kaua, Hi'iaka, Laka, Na-maka-o-ka-ha'i, and
Hi'iaka-i-ka-pua-'ena-'ena. Goddess Pele's parents are Haumea and Hina.
Goddess Pele has a couple of talents. One of them is that she can
seduce any man she wants by taking the form of a beautiful young woman.
Another one is exploding and giving more land to the island of Hawaii. She
has created about 70 acres of land in the past many years of her explosions at
the southern part of the island of Hawaii.
Goddess Pele can change into many forms. She can become a dog, an old
lady, and a beautiful young woman. A way that you can tell that Goddess
Pele is in one of her forms, is that the dog, young woman, or old woman would
have red eyes plus the woman would be wearing all white and the dog will have
white fur.
Goddess Pele can be different forms of lava. Some of them are lava flows,
leaks, and steady flows. Goddess Pele can also take the shape of fire.
Goddess Pele was and still is famous for the different forms she can be and for the fiery rage she would go into when her temper got high. She is also famous for the different types of explosions she could be.
Goddess Pele is like a normal human when it comes to feelings, but she is more of a Goddess when it comes to rage and anger. Even if she is the slightest bit annoyed, then she will start a volcanic eruption of some sort or a lava flow.
Yes. Pele has many legends. Here are a few:
Pele is a skilled rider of the holua, a wooden sled that rides down steep stone ramps. Papalauahi and the other chiefs challenged Pele to see who the best holua rider was. Papalauahi proved by far to be the most skilled. Pele lost her temper. She produced a great flood of lava that overran many of the chiefs and many onlookers.
A long time ago on the Island of Oahu, lived a powerful king whose son was
named Kama Pua'a. This child was difficult, to say the least. He was
always chasing away his father's livestock and tearing up the royal taro
patches. His Father swore that if he ever caught him, then he would kill
him. To save himself, Kama Pua'a fled Oahu and moved to Maui and married
Madame Pele, the fiery goddess. They were in love and soon had a son.
A sad event occurred; the son died. Madame Pele, as fiery as she was, went
into a rage and started chasing Kama Pua'a. To escape, he started running
down the slopes of Haleakala towards the sea. When he did this, he turned
into a giant hog. With Madame Pele gaining, Kama Pua'a called to his
Grandmother on Oahu," Grandma, Grandma, what should I do?"
His Grandmother answered his call," Leap into the ocean and you shall save
your self." When he got to the bottom at Pa'uwela, he leaped into the
ocean and changed into a fish. This ended his emotional experience with
Madame Pele. Thus Pa'uwela, which means "calming of emotions",
was named. The fish that Kama Pua'a turned into was a
Humuhumunukunukuapua'a; a fish with a pig snout. And today this fish is
the Hawaii state fish.
Once in old Hawaii, in the days when anything was possible, Maui, the most
powerful God, had a beautiful daughter. Maui loved her very much and as he
watched her grow up, he vowed that only the most worthy King of all the islands
would marry her.
But without her father knowing, the beautiful maiden fell in love with Puuokamoa,
a Merman God. She knew her father wouldn't approve, so they kept their
romance secret. Every day the beautiful maiden sneaked of to meat her love
and every night she returned home, radiant. One day, a townsperson saw the
two of them together and ran back to tell Maui of his daughter's secret lover.
Maui was furious. He flew into a rage and his screams and anger were heard by Madame Pele, the goddess of fire. She flew in her super natural way to where Maui was and suddenly appeared in front of him.
"What is so horribly wrong to put you in such an uproar?" Madame Pele
asked.
"My beautiful daughter has fallen in love with a God and I
disapprove. When I see him, I am going to have him condemned to a fiery
death," Maui said.
"Who is this God," Pele asked.
"His name is Puuokamoa," exclaimed Maui.
Madame Pele frowned at the mentioning of his name. "Oh no, Puukamoa
is my friend. Spare him Maui. I beg you. Do not have him
killed."
But Maui would not listen. Madame Pele was still pleading with him when
his beautiful daughter returned home. She heard her father's death
sentence on her lover and burst into tears.
"Oh father," she sobbed," I cannot live without the sight of
Puukamoa."
The father's heart softened at the sight of his daughter and thinking that she
would be unhappy for the rest of her life if she could not see the man she
loved. Finally, after much thought, Maui put his arms around his daughter
and lifted up her beautiful face. Tears soaked hr unhappy
eyes.
"Daughter dear, I cannot bear to see you unhappy," Maui said
tenderly. "But I cannot let this romance continue. You cannot
marry this Merman God."
His daughter waited to hear what her powerful father had decided. Madame
Pele stood quietly, waiting to hear the fate of her friend.
"I will not reduce him to ashes," Maui said.
"Oh father dear," the daughter cried out, hugging him.
"I will turn him into stone instead. Then you may gaze upon him, and
your romance would be pau (over).
And that is how the mountain, known as the Needle, at Iao Valley came to
be. It is the Merman god turned to stone for all to gaze upon.
A long time ago there was a man and a woman who fell deeply in love with each
other. The woman was a princess who was the sister of the fire Goddess
Pele. The man was a commoner. Pele liked the commoner and asked him
to marry her.
He said, "No. I am in love with your sister."
Pele was furious. She made a lava flow to chase her sister and the
man. Pele chased the man down to the ocean. The lava was so fast
that the man could not run faster than it. The lava killed the man.
Pele's sister ran up a mountain because she thought lava could not travel
upwards. But she was wrong. Pele raced up the mountain and killed
her. Down at the beach a plant started to grow near the man who lay there
dead. The plant had a flower on it.
The strange thing is that it was only a half a flower. Up in the mountains
a plant started to grow next to the woman that lay there dead. The Plant
also had half a flower. Legend has it that if you put the two half
flowers together so that the right half and the left half touch ends, the man
and the woman are joined together once again.
Once there was a family that was vacationing at the island of Hawaii.
In the family, there were the two parents who had a son named Raymond.
While the
parents were taking pictures of the cooled lava flows, Raymond went exploring in the
surrounding forest. There he met a girl. She began to call his
name "Come Raymond, Come Come!!" she repeated over and over.
"How do you know my name?" Raymond asked curiously.
The girl continued to call his name and Raymond began to follow. She led
him briskly through the forest, brushing away branches as they went along.
Suddenly they came to a clearing in the forest. The girl walked into the
middle of the clearing and began to call Raymond again. For awhile Raymond
hesitated. He could hear his parents calling him. When he looked
back at the girl, she had changed. She looked extremely angry and her eyes
were fiery red. As her eyes burned into his, the girl began to call
Raymond again. Her voice had also changed. Now it was deep and
menacing.
"COME RAYMOND, COME COME COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she growled.
Raymond, seeing this, turned and went charging back through the forest. As
he emerged, he saw his parents. He told them all about the strange girl
and where she led him. Raymond convinced his father to come with him and
began leading the way through the forest and brought him to the clearing.
As they were going through the forest, they picked up sticks to brush aside the
branches. They came to a clearing and found the girl no where in
sight. As Raymond led his father to where the girl was standing, they both
saw a smothered black spot in the grass where the girl had been standing.
The burns where the shape of the girl's feet! They kept their distance of
about 5 feet and poked the spot with their sticks. When they poked the
ground where the burns were, a dried lava tube opened up. It went down to
far to see the end and was six feet wide, (big enough for a person to fit
through).
As Raymond and his father walked back to his mother, Raymond thought about the
girl. If he had followed her in the clearing, he would have fallen into a
lava tube. He was glad that he turned back, but he still had questions:
Who was the girl? Why did she leave burn marks in the grass? and Why did
she try to lead him there? He never found out the answer to his questions
until he talked to a tour guide and learned about Pele, Goddess of Fire. A
Goddess who controlled the volcanoes and could change her form from a young
girl, like the one Raymond saw, to an old woman, a dog and to even
fire.
